I want to play without mods but then the game does something stupid like, mark counters as unusable because I have small clutter on the outer slots, even though the main cooking slot is still free, and it's either mod it out or rage uninstall the game.
So most of my mods are for that, fixing small nuisances, and make the game bearable to play.
I wonder if the dev team ever plays the game for longer than a few minutes at a time because if they did, surely they would realize things happening all.the.time is the opposite of fun.
Eat ice cream ? Brain freeze every bite ! Vegetarian sim eat vegetarian meal ? Notification about it ! Have children ? Monster-under-the-bed induced trauma every night !
So I mod to have a sensible game but I shouldn't have to do that.